Christopher Saunders

MySpace’s chief executive and co-founder, Chris DeWolfe, will be stepping down from the popular social networking site. The news comes as MySpace, which is owned by News Corp. continues to vie for the top spot in the social networking realm. Facebook overtook MySpace among worldwide visitors last June after growing 150 percent during the previous […]

Apple blew away Wall Street estimates for its second fiscal quarter of 2009, posting above-average earnings and revenue despite the economic slump. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) said earnings totaled $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per share, on revenue of $8.16 billion. Financial analysts had expected Apple to post a profit $1.09 per share on revenue of $7.95 […]

(L to R) Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Peter Sunde at court last month.Source: Reuters The Pirate Bay, one of the largest BitTorrent file-sharing sites, suffered a blow today when a Swedish court found several its operators guilty of violating copyright law — slapping them with jail terms and hefty fines. As a […]

Online auction giant eBay is planning to take plans its Skype Internet telephony unit public, with an Initial Public Offer planned for the first half of 2010. The move could mark the final chapter in eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) dealings with Skype, the Voice over IP (VoIP) service it purchased in 2005 for $2.6 billion — […]

The battle lines are being drawn here in midtown Manhattan: On one side, the Authors Guild, which recently won concessions from Amazon.com over the text-to-speech feature in its Kindle 2 e-book reader. On the other, a collection of groups including the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition, protesting the Guild’s restrictions […]

A top U.S. lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday said he is working to develop a bill to impose mandatory guidelines on Internet companies to protect user privacy, because the current voluntary approach is falling short. Rep. Rick Boucher, a Democrat from Virginia that heads the telecommunications subcommittee of the House Energy […]

Hooray! Today, Facebook turns five years old. In honor of its birthday, let’s take a moment to reflect on those past years, and what’s ahead for the world’s largest social networking site. Since its debut in 2004, Facebook has taken its place at the vanguard of a new trend in how we see and use […]

Superbowl meets Twitter Monday morning wouldn’t be complete after a big game without a little Monday morning quarterbacking. And if it’s the day after the Super Bowl, a recap of which ads viewers liked the best. Along with crowds at sports bars and in living rooms across the country, the Web 2.0-savvy could follow along […]

I hate to harp on AOL’s MediaGlow any further. But I will point out that AOL seems a bit confused about how successful its Web properties have been to date. Let’s pick apart a bit of what AOL seems to be saying in its MediaGlow announcement — namely, that it operates the top site for […]

The media is viewing Time Warner’s creation of AOL’s new “MediaGlow” unit as a way for Time Warner to continue insulating its online media properties from the taint of AOL’s legacy as the dialup ISP of the last generation — a business that’s heading nowhere, fast. It sounds like a good (if somewhat weakly named) […]

The new year is upon us, and 2009 finds Microsoft waging a technology war on even more fronts. It’s battling for market share in the cloud, the datacenter, the living room, the mobile phone and on its home turf, the PC. But unlike most of the campaigns Microsoft’s undertaken in its quarter-century history, these battles […]

Online retailer Amazon and Internet DVD rental service Netflix led e-tailers in customer satisfaction during the holiday shopping season. But other major e-tailers stumbled and saw their customer satisfaction wane, according to the latest annual survey conducted by online customer satisfaction consultancy ForeSee Results and market analyst firm FGI Research. The survey found that visitors […]